Taking a Look at Chikungunya Fever

In the short film, Yellow Fever, Ng'endo Mukii showcases the struggle of conforming to Western beauty standards as an African woman through various 4-D mediums including animation, pixilation, performance. She accomplishes this by showing how most of the people she knows of the same demographic, including her and her siblings are taught to change their hair and skin color through bleaching in order to become more “manageable”. The main argument the visuals in conjunction with the audio narrative present was that of those who are marginalized and are forced or are encouraged to sacrifice nuances of their identity. In an interview regarding the work, Ng’endo stated in an interview in Indie Wire she believes “skin and the body are often distorted

Individuals with mild symptoms of West Nile Virus make up about twenty percent of the populations of infected humans. This form of the disease is known as West Nile Fever. The symptoms of West Nile Fever include: fever, headache, tiredness, body aches, nausea, vomiting, swollen lymph glands, and a skin rash appearing on the back, chest or stomach. A headache and high fever are the most common indicators for a West Nile Virus infection. These mild symptoms can last anywhere from a few days to several weeks. (California Government, 2005).

The incidence is highest in late summer and early autumn, until the first hard frost does away with the mosquito population for that year. Birds and other animals (such as horses) are the usual reservoir for the infection, and they are involved in its dissemination. Initial viral symptoms may give way to high fever and neck stiffness (meningeal signs). However, as with most forms of encephalitis, it is the confusion and depressed levels of consciousness (stupor) that mark the infection as being of the brain (encephalitis) and not just the meninges. West Nile Virus is an acute central nervous disease (McCance & Huether, 2014).

In this chapter it talks about how Catherine LeMaigre was dying, and dying horribly and painfully. The two physicians sent for their esteemed colleague Dr. Benjamin Rush. They were trying to find out if they could stop the plague from spreading.

| Rash of red, itchy spots that turn into fluid-filled blisters. They then crust over to form scabs, which eventually drop off.It takes seven to 21 days for the symptoms to show after you have come into contact with the virus. This is called the ‘incubation period’.

Throughout history many different diseases have infected the world. Such diseases consist of measles, mumps, malaria, typhus and yellow fever. Many of these diseases are caused by different things and originated in different countries.

The incubation periods ranges from 3-30 days, the first symptoms usually appears in 7-14 days after the bite. Whereas this disorder can be asymptomatic, typical symptoms include fever, migratory polyarthralgia, headache, myalgia, fatigue and a characterized isolated skin called lesion that progress with its multiplication. If left untreated, the disease can affect the joints, the heart, and nervous system, that may exhibit neurological findings including meningitis and other neuropathies(Goolsby, Grubbs, & Goolsby, 2014)("Lyme Disease| Lyme Disease | CDC,"

First, this disease showed tons of symptoms, the symptoms developed between two to seven days after the person is infected, but the symptoms in the east were different. Where it began in both women and men with swelling in the groin, on a victim's neck, or under the armpit, which grew to the size of an apple, also blood gushing from the nose. The people with this disease most likely died in about three days. Most of them died without any

Lastly, this excruciating plague had some painful symptoms alike the inability to keep food down, excruciating fever, and last but definitely not the least, the unbearable pain. With these comes a list of other symptoms. Chills, fever, general ill feeling, headache, muscle pain, ad seizures. Other symptoms include, cough, difficulty breathing, fever, frothy, bloody spectrum, pain in chest when you breathe deeply, blood clotting, diarrhea, vomiting. In addition, there are many

The first stage involves the hallmark of the disease, having a bullseye like rash known as erythema migrans at the site of the bite, and also flu like symptoms such as fatigue, fever, and headache. Not all individuals experience the erythema migrans so it is not a required finding for the diagnosis of the disease. If left untreated, the disease will advance to the second stage. The second stage is known as the early disseminated stage, and is when the infection has progressed to other areas of the body. It can involve additional erythema migrans on different parts of the body, Bell’s palsy, inflammation of the spinal cord, swelling the joints, and heart palpitations. Like other spirochete infections, such as syphilis, the disease can have various asymptomatic periods (Bhate, 2011). The third stage, can result in arthritic bouts and neurological issues such as numbness in different parts of the body and/or short term memory

What is West Nile Fever? West Nile fever also known as West Nile virus is a mosquito borne disease transferred from mosquito to person. Encephalitis is a disease that West nile virus can cause. What encephalitis does is it causes inflammation of the brain which in some cases can be fatal. The west Nile virus wasn’t discovered until 1937 in Africa. The disease didn’t make its way into the United States until 1999. The Virus is most common during the summer months (July- September) which is when mosquitos the carrier of the disease are most active. But in some states it is at risk all year round. Most people who are bitten and infected even receive the virus.

Symptoms of the Black Plague appear usually after 2 to 5 days of exposure or contact with the bacteria. Symptoms often include: chills, fever, headache, muscle pains, seizures, swelling of lymph glands, commonly found in the groin or armpit area, usually where the infection began. ( swollen lymph nodes)

Once infected the typical incubation period for SARS is 2-7 days, however, in some cases it may be as long as 10 days. The illness usually begins with a fever. Sometimes chills accompany the fever and other symptoms including headache, general feeling of discomfort, and body aches. Some people also develop mild respiratory symptoms at the outset. After the incubation period of 2 to 7 days SARS patients may develop a dry nonproductive cough that might be accompanied by or progresses to the point where insufficient oxygen is getting to the blood. The CDC says that SARS

Although throughout history only about 2% of humans infected happened to be fatal, the other 98% suffered through a wide variation of symptoms that focused on different aspects of the body1. In humans, Rift Valley fever can have an incubation period of 2 to 6 days with some patients showing no signs and a majority of the others suffering from flu-like symptoms, such as vomiting, headaches, limb pains, and diarrhea2. These minor symptoms can last from 2 to 7 days before the patient’s adaptive immune response is implemented and begins its fight against the virus, followed by a complete, or nearly complete, recovery2,3. Though these symptoms seem like common ailments that exist everywhere today and are practically harmless in the long run, Rift Valley fever has the potential to turn them into a lifelong nuisance.

The symptoms of yellow fever are varied. The virus has an incubation period of three to six days. The first symptoms will be fever, muscle pain, backache, headache, shivers, and loss of appetite, nausea, and vomiting. Frequently a slow pulse accompanies the fever. Most people improve after three to four days, however in 15% of the cases; patients go into a toxic phase within 24 hours. Fever reappears, and they exhibit jaundice and abdominal pain with vomiting. Bleeding occurs from the mouth, eyes, nose and stomach. The kidneys fail to produce urine, and blood appears in the vomit and feces. Half of the patients who experience this toxic phase die in ten to fourteen days. Due to the fact that many of these symptoms are identical to malaria and other diseases native to the areas, yellow fever is difficult to recognize. Blood tests can identify the virus, but may not be easily available to people in poorer developing countries.